Michael W. Suleiman

Ph.D. Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1965
Comparitive Politics, Middle East Politics, The Arab-American Community, American Images of Middle East Peoples

Vita

Michael W. Suleiman is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Kansas State University. Also at Kansas State, he is a faculty member in the American Ethnic Studies Program (AESP) and has served as a member of the Governance Board of AESP (1987-1989). He also received the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Member Award (1987), and was selected as a Mid-America State Universities Association Honor Lecturer (1986-1987). Dr. Suleiman has received several research awards, including an Institute for Advanced Study fellowship, Princeton, NJ (1994-95) to write about Arabs in the U.S.; a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant (1989-1991) to do research on Arab Americans; a CIES-Islamic Civilization grant (1984) to do research in Tunisia; Fulbright Hays Fellowships (2003, Summers, 1993, 1991 and 1983-84) to conduct research in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco respectively; an American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship (1972-73) for research in Egypt; and a Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship (1969-70). Suleiman has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad to university, government, business and community groups.

Dr. Suleiman is the author of over seventy scholarly publications on comparative and international politics of the Middle East as well as American-Arab relations, and the Arab-American community, including: Political Parties in Lebanon (1967); American Images of Middle East Peoples: Impact of the High School (1977); The Arabs in the Mind of America (1988); Arab Americans: Continuity and Change (1989), co-editor and co-author; U.S. Policy on Palestine from Wilson to Clinton (1995), editor and co-author; and Arabs in America: Building a New Future (1999), editor and co-author. Dr. Suleiman was co-editor (with John Entelis) of Westview Press Series on "State, Culture and Society in Arab North Africa" (1989-1999). He is a member of the Editorial Boards of five journals dealing with the Middle East, namely International Journal of Middle East Studies (1982-88), Arab Studies Quarterly, Journal of Arab Affairs (1981-93), The Maghreb Review, Arab Journal of International Studies (1987-92), and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.

Suleiman has served on the Boards of Directors or Advisory Boards of the following organizations, among others: The Association of Arab-American University Graduates, AAUG (President, 1977); Middle East Studies Association of North America, MESA (1980-82), and Committee member (1972-75) and Chair (1975-78) of the MESA Committee on Pre-Collegiate Education; the American Institute of Maghrib Studies, AIMS (1985-88); the American Research Center in Egypt, ARCE (1991-94, 1994-97); Arab American National Museum (2001- ); Lebanese Emigration Research Center (2003- ); H-Mideast-Politics (Online) (2002- ); Census Information Center (2001- ); and the Arab Sociological Association (1996-99). Suleiman has acted as a consultant, commentator, adviser or reviewer for numerous groups including the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of International Education, National Science Foundation, League of Arab States, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been interviewed widely and frequently in the press both in the U.S. and abroad, including PBS, CBS TV, New York Times, Washington Post, C-Span, Cable News Network (CNN) TV and National Public Radio (NPR), where he has had over thirty (30) interviews.

Dr. Suleiman is presently finishing an annotated bibliography on the Arab-American community and working on a book-length manuscript on Arabs in America.